Maneaters are the real terror in Uttarakhand. A woman falls prey to a maneater in Champawat leaving behind two innocent adolescents

In Uttarakhand man-eater attacks and subsequent brutal deaths of women and children has become a day to day affair with the forest or wild life department becoming a mere spectator. Just yesterday n a day before a child died in hospital after being attacked by a maneater leopard in Srinagar area of Garhwal , supposedly of Daang village and another child being treated at AIIMS Rishikesh after being injured badly by another predator. There is panic all around and the forest and wild life department seems to be good for nothing except drawing a sorry figure always. The people of the man-eater dominated areas in Srinagar are in extreme panic not knowing as to when this man-eater will grab them and drag inside the nearby bushes or jungles make them their easy prey.

As if this was not enough in Champawat district’s Bambasa area – a women, mother of two children has fallen prey to a dreaded man-eater leopard/ tiger. The woman became the victim when she had gone in the banks of Huddi river to arrange grass for the cattles.

According to the latest news the woman Munni Devi of Fagpur village had gone to the banks of the Huddi river along with three other women .

While they were busy cutting the plant leaves / arranging fodder for their cattles talking with each othe, the maneaters pounced upon Munni Devi coming from the nearby bushes and literally grabbed her by its jaws.The women who had accompanied Munni Devi raised alarm by making noise. The maneater then ran away in a huff but immediately came back again and pounced upon Munni Devi. The maneater has attacked her so badly that she died on the spot profusely bleeding and her neck having deep wounds.

After the panicked women raised the alarm the villagers reached the spot and informed the local police, who also arrived on the scene. The local police and forest department officials took the deceased badly injured body in their possession and send them to Khatima for postmortem.

The deceased left behind two innocent children one in 9 th standard and another in class 2 nd. The government has fixed the monetary compensation as Rs 5 lakhs for the bereaved family in case anyone died after the wild animal attacks.